[Metabolic changes in simulated weightlessness]

8 healthy subjects participated in 2 series of experiments on the comparative studies of two techniques of respiratory therapy employing multicomponent anesthesia during controlled lung ventilation in normal conditions and in experimental weightlessness. It has been established that experimental weightlessness, as compared to normal conditions of controlled lung ventilation, was more favourable for the maintenance of effective energy exchange in erythrocytes and tissue O2 consumption. Both techniques of respiratory therapy during controlled lung ventilation are recommended in these conditions.